Nataliya is a lawyer with over 17 years of experience. She has spent her entire career working in legal consultancy, including international law firms.

Nataliya specializes in the intersection of law and innovation. She began her career as a specialist in IP protection and defense. Thereafter, Nataliya gradually developed her expertise in information technology law and media regulation.

Nataliya also specializes in resolving disputes in intellectual property, takes part in disputes with government agencies and entities related to intellectual property.

Nataliya has excellent academic skills in the intellectual property and information technology law. She defended her dissertation in copyright and related rights and is a candidate of legal sciences. She is also a graduate of the MA Innovation, Technology and Law program at the University of Edinburgh.

Nataliya is the active writer and publisher of scientific and practical articles, participates in conferences and activities of business associations. Nataliya contributes to improving justice in the Republic of Kazakhstan in disputes related to intellectual property, she lectures on intellectual property to judges of the Republic of Kazakhstan on a pro bòno basis.

University of Edinburgh, Master of Laws, Innovation, Technology and Law program.

Candidate of Legal Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.) awarded by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property, Diploma in Law.

Darkhan advises clients on corporate and labor law. Darkhan takes part in e-commerce related projects. He also specializes in dispute resolution, including litigation. Darkhan has a pool of successful court cases. Among them is the representation of a company engaged in the hotel business. In the conduct of the legal dispute, the client kept owning one of the largest hotel resorts worth more than KZT 2 bln. Also, Darkhan represented in court one of the Kazakhstan leading second-tier banks on multiple occasions, that ended up with the bank saving more than KZT 277 mln.

Darkhan has extensive experience in enforcement proceedings.

KAZGUU University named after M. S. Narikbaeva.

Ulzhan is a lawyer with more than 3 years of experience; she began her career in the legal department of Ernst & Young, an international consulting firm.

At the Big Four, Ulzhan worked on various legal issues, including corporate and labor law, and advised companies on regulatory issues. She participated in drafting due diligence reports and structuring transactions. Later, Ulzhan began to develop her expertise in intellectual law, as well as in TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom). Ulzhan has an excellent academic background in the above area and was awared with the Master's degree in Intellectual Property Law by the Queen Mary University of London (Hons).

Queen Mary University of London, Master of Laws, Intellectual Property program.

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Bachelor of Law, program “International Law”.